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Women proven to be supreme at multi-tasking (again)
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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#1 - 2013-10-24 16:20:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Ability to more rapidly handle multiple tasks, when they're all mixed together. (Example-- voice comms + corp chat + alliance chat + diplo convos + ship fitting or ship flying + drones + dscan). Organizing, prioritizing, using methodical search patterns, keeping calm under pressure. It kind of sounds like females could dominate EVE, if they ever got interested in it. Or certain aspects of the game, at least.

BBC News: Women 'better at multitasking' than men, study finds

First, they compared 120 women and 120 men in a computer test which involves switching between tasks involving counting and shape-recognition.

Men and women were equal when tasks were tackled one at a time. But when the tasks were mixed up there was a clear difference.

Both women and men slowed down, and made more mistakes, as the switching became more rapid.

But the men were significantly slower - taking 77% longer to respond, whereas women took 69% longer.

"This difference may seem small, but it adds up" over a working day or week, said Dr Stoet.

A group of women and men were given eight minutes to complete a series of tasks - locating restaurants on a map, doing simple maths problems, answering a phone call, and deciding how they would search for a lost key in a field.

Completing all these assignments in eight minutes was impossible - so it forced men and women to prioritise, organise their time, and keep calm under pressure.

In the key search task in particular, women displayed a clear performance advantage over men, says co-author Prof Keith Laws, of the University of Hertfordshire.

"You can see from the drawings - women used methodical search patterns, like going round the field in concentric circles. That's a highly productive strategy for finding a lost object.

"Whereas some men didn't even search the whole field in any particular manner, which is just bizarre."
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#2 - 2013-10-24 17:04:26 UTC
James Morgan wrote that article in an attempt to appease his angry wife.





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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#3 - 2013-10-24 17:31:27 UTC
I posted that article to justify why I can't manage drones in pvp, and just barely in pve.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#4 - 2013-10-24 17:34:59 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
I posted that article to justify why I can't manage drones in pvp, and just barely in pve.


No one can manage drones. Those little bastards do what they want, when they want. The greatest thing CCP eve did was reduce the maximum drone amount to 5. Those beehive Domis were like old ladies with 10+ cats on leashes.

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-10-24 17:38:28 UTC
Yeah drones are like herding cats.

And mrs gray looked at this and in her wonderful israeli simplicity said "of course" then went back to decapitating people in skyrim while singing pop songs in the other room. Shocked

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Malaclypse Muscaria
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2013-10-24 19:11:28 UTC
That's not true at all.

Like right now, I'm replying to this thread, while at the same time playing EVE, watching a re-run of Game of Thrones last season, as well as WATCH OUT ROBB THERE'S A CLOAKY SANDWICH IN MY PHONE
Cynter DeVries
Spheroidal Projections
#7 - 2013-10-24 21:52:06 UTC
In other news, water found to be wet.

Cynter's Law of feature suggestion: Thou shalt not suggest NPCs do something players could do instead.
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2013-10-24 22:51:41 UTC
Yeah, women are better at a lot of things. Emotional intelligence, for example.

Women would still need the drive for violence that makes men such successful serial killers and mosters in order to rule EVE.

I think I remember reading about how extroverts are better at multi-tasking than introverts.
So introverted men are pretty much ******.

...dammit.
No Means No
meh fackit
#9 - 2013-10-24 23:09:52 UTC
they better.. or else they wouldnt be able to:

.kitchen
.sex
.cleaning
.kids
.etc


let them all multi task their lives away while I have a beer sitting on my favorite couch, couldnt care less
Bischopt
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#10 - 2013-10-24 23:57:37 UTC
No Means No wrote:
they better.. or else they wouldnt be able to:

.kitchen
.sex
.cleaning
.kids
.etc


let them all multi task their lives away while I have a beer sitting on my favorite couch, couldnt care less


I'm sure they couldn't care less about you either.
Pr1ncess Alia
Doomheim
#11 - 2013-10-25 02:43:29 UTC
That's because we're all schizophrenic.

Schizophrenia is like natures caffeine.

baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#12 - 2013-10-26 05:41:44 UTC
This is why women think they can do their makeup/text on their phone while driving in rush hour traffic in the wet...
Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-10-26 07:22:02 UTC
no true multitasking in humans. it's more like multisampling

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

trust me, yeah?

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Nerath Naaris
Pink Winged Unicorns for Peace Love and Anarchy
#14 - 2013-10-26 08:36:19 UTC
There still seems to be a profound lack of being able to make sandwiches, though.....

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Synthetic Cultist
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#15 - 2013-10-26 09:05:33 UTC
The BBC article title is inaccurate. Should be "Women are less bad at multitasking".

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Echo Echoplex
#16 - 2013-10-26 14:51:57 UTC
Nerath Naaris wrote:
There still seems to be a profound lack of being able to make sandwiches, though.....


Not true. I create a gastronomical masterpiece any time I'm hungry.

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Rain6638
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#17 - 2013-10-26 15:49:46 UTC
Nerath Naaris wrote:
There still seems to be a profound lack of being able to make sandwiches, though.....

wait, what does sandwiches have to do with multitas... oh. ....OH.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#18 - 2013-10-26 16:45:06 UTC
Rain6638 wrote:
no true multitasking in humans. it's more like multisampling

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

trust me, yeah?

Yeah, that's true. 'Multitasking' is a misleading misnomer. It's really switching around between several ongoing tasks, not handling several at the same time.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#19 - 2013-10-26 17:07:03 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Rain6638 wrote:
no true multitasking in humans. it's more like multisampling

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

trust me, yeah?

Yeah, that's true. 'Multitasking' is a misleading misnomer. It's really switching around between several ongoing tasks, not handling several at the same time.


Unless some women have some special quantum trickery under their sleeve........Big smile

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Echo Echoplex
#20 - 2013-10-26 18:18:36 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Rain6638 wrote:
no true multitasking in humans. it's more like multisampling

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794

trust me, yeah?

Yeah, that's true. 'Multitasking' is a misleading misnomer. It's really switching around between several ongoing tasks, not handling several at the same time.


Unless some women have some special quantum trickery under their sleeve........Big smile


hearmerawr

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